First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.” Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. To read the complete article, [.].

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Hammer Article Career Planning 80

Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

They discussed the strategic impact that leadership assessment and profiling can have on successful executive succession planning. It was great to see engagement with both CMI members and non-members for a discussion on levelling up management and leadership.

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Project Webinar Learning-by-Doing Blog 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Leadership position no longer matters as much as leadership itself (a distinction Peter Senge wrote about in The Fifth Discipline ). Many people have built their careers and their identities on being experts, and for them this can be terrifying.

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Power Span of Control Senge Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

If you want those new creative concepts to come forward, you must foster a corporate culture that incorporates five leadership principles of innovation: 1. Early on in my career I wondered what made people put their whole hearts and souls into their work. Senge's concept of learning is not just sitting in a classroom.

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Senge Engineering Learning-by-Doing Innovation 10

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 186

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. Many of the paradigms we learned in school and built our careers on are either incomplete or ineffective. Unlearning is not about forgetting.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism. It can get pretty complex. What do you think?

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior.

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. He was 90 when he wrote the following to Peter Senge (who recounted the correspondence in his influential The Fifth Discipline ): Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Institute on-the-job training.

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Deming Management Senge Taylorism 14